Are the Hellraiser comics any good? Which ones should I start with?
Alternatively, what are some comics with similar vibes to hellraiser? I'm interested in following monstrous characters from dark magic realms that have a bunch of interesting lore.
Are the Hellraiser comics any good? Which ones should I start with?
Dylan Young
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Justin Wilson
The original Epic Comics run is god-tier, better stories and Cenonite designs than most of the movies combined
I haven't read any of the Boom Studios stuff that came years later, seems like it was more ongoing narratives and less one-shots like the original series
Also Marvel had a Pinhead mini I know nothing about, but it's under Comics Code so I expect it's probably neutered
Asher Wilson
How would a bible man vs hellraiser comic go down?
Jace Howard
Hilariously.
Gabriel Gray
>Epic Comics
Their Hellraiser comics was an anthology series, various short stories per issue. Clive Barker signed off on it, but does not participate (I think? Would have to check). Includes some big names like Dwayne McDuffie, Neil Gaiman, Kevin O'Neill, Kyle Baker, etc. As it goes with anthologies quality varies from story to story, but most of it is good. Stories ranges from medieval drama to wild west tales to stories taking place in hell itself, all delving in or expanding the lore. Worth checking out. I think it was reprinted by Boom Studios as Hellraiser Masterworks or something like that.
There was a peripheral volume called "Book of the Damned" which is a four issue miniseries of various texts related to the universe, all written by Larry Wachowski (yeah, same one from the Matrix movies).
>Boom Studios
Their main series is a sequel to the first two movies (it ignores everything after Hellbound) so if you liked the movies this is a good place to start. An older Kirsty is leading a team of other survivors and they're going around locating and destroying lament configurations, all while Pinhead is plotting something of his own. Also appearing is Harry D'Amour from Barker's story "The Last Illusion", or the movie "Lord of Illusions" which is based on the story but isn't a straight adaptation. It takes some weird turns, but as a follow up to the movies it's much better than any of the shitty sequels.
I know there's a Pinhead comic out there that even crossedover with Marshal Law, but I haven't read that.
Jack Evans
Brayden Flores
The problem with Hellraiser is America is too shy about sex. It can handle Gore and violence just fine, but sex and pleasure ate just too taboo. So this series appropriates a bunch of themes and concepts from fetishes and hardcore bondage, but it is never able to faithfully explore those themes because to stay on the safe side of authority it has to minimize the sexual side. Fundamentally handicapping the concept.
Caleb Morales
So what you're saying is hellraiser should have more sexy cenobite girls?
Daniel White
kino
Charles Thompson
That's always a good idea.
Gabriel Gomez
epic comics. it has a shitty devil's brigade crossover, for lack of better words, but it's some of the best stuff you will ever read
Joseph Cook
boom studios was pure capeshit. I shit you not
pinhead mini was disappointing
Jordan Perez
You know, if you just remade Audition but she ended up being a cenobite in the end? and you just took the story from and adapted it into the ending? That'd be a pretty good movie.
Xavier Sullivan
>cucked so hard that the worst tortures in hell aren't as bad
Hunter Cruz
>Also Marvel had a Pinhead mini I know nothing about, but it's under Comics Code so I expect it's probably neutered
It wasn't, have a page from that mini.
Pinhead plays with the estabilished epic continuity and plays with the concept. IT feels very vertigo-esque
oh, and btw, the blonde girl is pinhead
Adrian Allen
satanic prayers for you Yea Forums
Jack Allen
EPIC/ Marvel Hellraiser was the best and still is after all these years. There was also a fan-made comic hellbound chronicles hosted on some hellraiser fanpage, don't know what happened to it
Juan Murphy
actually found it, here's the link
cenobite.com
Camden Young
Has the Epic Comics run ever been collected into a trade?
Mason Hughes
not in us, in europe yes
Henry Young
Never have I seen something so rough
Nathan Smith
we have such sights to show you
Ethan Harris
He seems like a nice chap.
Landon Taylor
This is fucking sad, but really good writing.
Brody Jackson
This is honestly goddamn amazing.
>The smell of her wetness
Mmm, yes.
Lincoln Cox
In what language then?
Carson Anderson
This is the only time I can think of where the BDSM aspect of this series gets to shine. Every other time its just been impersonal gore.
Julian Wright
Why was the Scarlett Gospel such a terrible piece of fanfiction?
It had one cool idea and that's about it.
William Cruz
Some of it was collected into paperbacks over the years but none of the reprints have been complete collections, annoyingly. BOOM cherrypicked some of the best stuff for their 'Masterworks' volumes, which is the most recent attempt at reprinting the Epic material
Camden Torres
Does the nun become a cenobite?
Alexander Phillips
Okay which series is this from and is there more like it?